Doubts
Submitted by ATN on 2002-07-14 14:49:34, Sunday
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Hi all, I just wanted to praise God for bringing me through a rough time of my own making. These last few weeks, as will happen in life if we're not terribly careful, I had kind of stopped praying much or reading my Bible, and then last week, all of a sudden I just had all these doubts about God and the Bible and everything else. I'm not somebody who can just drop a train of thought and forget about it, so I was torturing over it just about all the time. Not that I'd seen any convincing proofs that God didn't exist -- deep down I always did believe it... It was just doubt, lack of confidence. I finally was totally miserable, and I did what I should have done right away: read for awhile in the Bible, and went on my knees and begged God's forgiveness for the way I'd been living and thinking. His mercy is always so much more than we deserve... He gave me peace right away, and it's lasted. And later that day somebody started a conversation with me clearing up some of the issues on the intellectual side. So I just wanted to praise God. I also wanted to ask for prayer, if you think of it occasionally, that I'll have more focus in keeping up my prayer life. I tend to drift when things go well and go through these big cycles. I'll pray the same thing for you all, because I know it's very difficult in modern life, maybe always. On a slightly different note, have any of you read Lewis's The Screwtape Letters? I [re]read a bit of that yesterday, and it's certainly one of the most insightful things I've read on the Christian life. I really recommend it. Yours in Christ, ATN |
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